Samuel Carpenter
Samuel Carpenter
Editor:
Kevin Winters
Published:
August 9 2018
Updated:
November 27, 2025
Samuel Carpenter Public Domain – Carpenter & Carpenter
Samuel Carpenter, and his half-brothers Joshua and Abraham, came from Barbadoes to William Penn’s new city of Philadelphia shortly after it was established in 1681. All were very well educated and had money from investments in Barbadoes. Samuel had spent 10 years there investing in sugar and would soon become one of the wealthiest men in Pennsylvania. He became an early investor in Pennsylvania,...